This is also one of those weird things where, as a bleeding-heart liberal, I kinda wish the liberal media coverage was a bit less... extreme, I guess? I'm seeing, for example, a lot of comparisons to this vs. black lives matter protests, media coverage of them, police response to them, etc. Except I am not seeing much difference in media coverage (that may just be what I'm seeing in my own little echo chamber, though). And while the police responses to black lives matter protests are generally pretty fucked up and shouldn't be the way they are, those protests aren't usually happening out in the middle of nowhere, so the comparison doesn't seem as direct as press coverage is making it out to be. It honestly seems like a viable response with these guys (based on what I understand of the Oregon situation) to, as long as they're not hurting anyone (and the situation may or may not escalate on its own), just let them sit there until they get hungry and bored, which thus far seems to be about what's being done.
Maybe I'm missing something?